Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Argumentation at its finest.

A dumb man once said: "Intelligence can't win no war."
And a wise one replied: "But, then again, intelligence wouldn't start any."

I believe I made it very clear I despise Anonymous in the previous posts. I've decided, however, to go deeper and say very specifically what I disagree with.

To begin with, the WWWI. When DDOS attackers were trying to drop Ebaum's World website back in 2006, they callid it the "Worldwide Web War I". The same term appeared recently, when operation MegaUpload by Anonymous declared something like that. They said they'd want to start the WWWI. Silly people! You can't win ANY political argument at all by declaring how you're gonna fuck up your opponent and by telling stories just about how badass you are. You need a discussion, reasoning, you need to convince people who don't at all know about any SOPA or MegaUpload, that you are the one who is right. And there is just no way of doing that while maintaining Anonymous' anonymity and ways of working.

Fight against SOPA and against so-called "censors of internet's freedom of speech" is dangerous. Many influential companies are interested in it, big 3 of music publishers included. We are dealing with corruption in its finest. And only way to convince senators to vote against is through public. Now, they can see only their potential income in hard cash from these interest groups. If they could see potential political rise in form of support by people, they surely would go against SOPA. It is as simple as that. No senator would agree with Anonymous just because they crashed his website for a couple of minutes. In fact, it is mostly considered as an act of terrorism and US government has a long and healthy history of fucking terrorists' shit up. Not negotiating with them.

And what does even Anonymous do? Nothing much, basically. They managed to stir things up a little, but their factual acts are lying low. DDOSing website is nothing rare. It is basically as uncommon as bus being full or shopping mall crowded, because these attacks are actually only ongoing, repeating of refreshing the sites, filling it with more demands than the site can answer, thus getting it down. You do not need any skill or power to do this. Only a few interested friends. Surely, however, it makes you feel powerful. And you know what? Many websites all around the world get DDOSed absolutely unknowingly, during Christmas sales for example.

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